the subject, the object and the other. First, the subject means the one that was deprived of its position by the exchange system of capital and became the object. Kim Su-young expresses the sorrow that the position of the subject is not guaranteed con...
the subject, the object and the other. First, the subject means the one that was deprived of its position by the exchange system of capital and became the object. Kim Su-young expresses the sorrow that the position of the subject is not guaranteed constantly as insider/outsider of an office, a modern social space. Second, the object the endlessly reproduced ghostlike object, that is, products made by the exchange system of modern capital. Kim Su-young, overlooking 'depression' that capital conceal itself through 'liveliness' of products, identifies the discarded and superfluous objects with himself. Third, the modern society intercepts the route enabling cooperation between the subject and the other by ruining lots of 'social ideas'. Kim Su-young finds 'skill of love' that re-discovers the other and the world as the targeted love, sorrowing loss of ideas such as
Kim Su-young makes for himself the defense and cure mechanism of depression in the process of reflecting on depressive self. It is the very ‘skill of love’ and ‘glance of an analyst’. If ‘skill of love’ is the skill of 'becoming the subject' that the depressive subject, retreated to one's own inside, re-discovers and re-creates the lost object in the other and the world, 'glance of an analyst' is the skill of 'becoming of the other' continuously renewing oneself, seeing the identity of the depressive self from the viewpoint of a third party. The skill=methodology for coping with the depression created by the depressive subject itself has a significant meaning. This means going forward from passive ethical selection suffering from depression instead of sharing the sin of modern civilization to positive ethical selection curing depression. Kim Su-young, based on modern viewpoint of an analyst reflecting on modernity, pioneered the rare, modern and ethical poetic world in our poetic history.